I'm James Payne, a curator, gallerist and a passionate art lover. I am on a mission to demystify the art world and discover the stories behind the world’s greatest paintings and sculptures. Each episode will focus on one piece of art and break it down, using clear and concise language free of 'art-speak'.
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Amazing video! Thank you!
This was so well narrated I expected credits to roll after he was done😭
Dali was a mess. Amateur. His work has no actual value except maybe for being example of how better go and do something useful instead of pretending to be genius.
Wonderful James. Such an insightful expose of land spiral and earthworks. It was such a shame that Robert Smithson died so prematurely but the land spiral lives on. Perhaps longer than he would have envisioned.
John Singer Sargent, photoshop expert with a brush, before computers were invented. His skill is legendary, but the portraits look nothing like the subjects. No wonder people flocked to him for a portrait. Smaller nose? Sure! Bigger eyes? No problem!
Yes he was admitted to a zap zap institution. His painting is his brains scrambled over canvas. Art??? You've got to be on crack or worse. Just an opinion. 😅😅😅😅😅.And people who spend millions on this c.... are from Mars. Do they have mental hospital on Mars yet? Hope so. 😅😅😅😅😅😅
nothing pertinent to add. just feeding the algo-deities of the tube-y'all.
Caravaggio is my favorite artist ever, his paintings are so amazing to me
I will keep this video as a reference. Love the way this great artist's path has been resumed. Thank you.
Rationality Rules
Does anyone know the name of the classical music played during the intro?
Thanks!
Awesome video, I really appreciate your work James 🤩🥰🥰
Traveled from LA to NY just to see this beauty.
A great video, as always
Love this video!
When you look at these paintings try imagining what kind of symbolism they are trying to use. For example, Venus arriving at cypress on a shell might mean Venus arrived at Cyprus on a boat. The shell being the boat. All of these paintings look like one thing but really mean another thing
Great!
Always great content !
I'm going to go out on a limb here and assert that Mozart would have detested Rothko's paintings.
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Spiral Jetty is trash, Smithson is a hack and the fact that this channel is celebrating this garbage is sad.
Thanks!
Oh that was a sad and gut wrenching explanation of Van Gogh's mental and physical suffering! One can only imagine how many more wonderful works of art he had in his mind that he would have created! Just heartbreaking. Thank you for this excellent video giving us some insight into the great man's last years.
ok I get it even if I enter the hospital of mental illness (ss challenge)I will never work in art their or any where and by the way I'm a friend for very powerful peoples around the world (8448)
Locc to the bone
Thank you for such cleat explanation of this picture I appreciate it now.
you are the best at what you do, I wait with baited breath for your videos. Thanks so much
I saw The Starry Night up close in MoMA earlier this year. I don't know much about art but it made me a bit emotional. The longer I stared at it, the more I was mesmerized by it. I distinctly remember the strokes being so defined.
This should have more views than the other popular Black Paintings video.
Kiziik serbeti
yooo that plot twist sent shivers down my spine
I still don’t understand why is she considered a feminist figure when she was so psychologically dependennt of and obsessed with Diego. At least that’s what I get from her writings.
I think Cartier crash watch was a direct copy of Dali's melting watches.
i subscribed about 2 minutes into this video
Regarding the theft: maybe one of the reasons the Mona Lisa was stolen was its size? Seems most other paintings were much bigger?
Just phenomenal. Thank you.
I was recently told by an artist friend that the Vision of Tondal was actually not painted by Bosch but by his students, does anyone have some knowledge regarding this? Thanks in advance for any info and explanation! ❤
Bosch was (in my undereducated view to art) one of the view painters that spoke to me when visiting Prado. 😅
I saw both Dr. Pozzi and Madame X in person at the Met in the same room during an expedition. Both are absolutely stunning, and two of my favorite portraits of all time.
The Death of Marat Jacques-Louis David Year 1793 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Marat
Thank you for making looking at paintings enjoyable.
Thank you for the clear explanations.
Actually, when this painting was finished, they were not doing blackout in New York yet. It made it very easy for German submarines to find targets to sink at night, because the ships were silhouetted by the lights of the cities along the coast.
Fascinating and well made
Can photography be “great”?
The works emphasized here are certainly two of Sargent's stand-out paintings and among his most radical. The 'Nude Study of Thomas E. McKeller' -- part of the series never exhibited in his lifetime -- is much less subtle in its exceptionalism. It can be viewed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.